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About Me

Programming Skills

ggplot2
Markdown
R data.table
R tidyverse
Git/Github
R shiny
Python
Latex
Bash
SQL

Technical SKILLS

Dashboards
R package development
Docker
CI/CD
AWS

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Selin Kubilay

With a background in aquatic sciences, I transitioned into research data management, following my passion for FAIR research software development and open science advocacy. I thrive in interdisciplinary environments and particularly enjoy developing R packages and interactive dashboards that enhance data accessibility and usability. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, road biking, bouldering, and hosting board game nights.

Employment History

Research Data Manager

Delft

Delft University of Technology

Current - 2023

  • Co-developed data engineering and analysis solutions in R and Python for research projects
  • Designed and implemented relational and non-relational database solutions
  • Contributed to the library trainings targeted to researchers for establishing good software development practices
  • Organized R cafe meetings to establish an R community in TU Delft
  • Participated in several workshops for adopting better research software practices

Guest Researcher

Innsbruck

University of Innsbruck

2022 - 2020

  • Built a groundwater experiment as part of doctoral research to assess the influence of carbon regime disturbances on microbial carbon utilization
  • Used R with STAN to analyze and interpret the complex experimental design with a Bayesian model
  • Helped build a new lab from scratch for the research group FLEE

Researcher

Berlin

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

2022 - 2018

  • Investigated the impacts of dam-related flow regime disruptions on riverine biogeochemical interactions through spatio-temporal analysis of dissolved organic carbon data
  • Campaigned for groundwater sampling excursions for Trace Organic Chemical Research
  • Presented in SoapboxScience events for public outreach
  • Participated in several conferences with posters or presentations for dissemination of research results

Research Intern

Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

2017

  • Analysed and visualised data in R for a soil remediation project
  • Obtained funding through the Excellency Scholarship from TUBITAK for my stay in Cophenagen



Education

Relevant Trainings

2025
  • Carpentries Instructor Training (The Carpentries)
2024
  • Data Modeling and Relational Data Architecture (EssentialSQL)
  • Good Practices in Research Software Development (Netherlands eScience Center)
2023
  • Reproducible Research with R Packages (Netherlands eScience Center)
2021
  • Model-Data Integration for Natural Sciences: Non-parametric modeling with artificial neural networks and applied deep learning with R and Python (University of Innsbruck)
2019
  • Introductory Bayesian Statistics for Ecologists (Leibniz IGB-Berlin)
  • Multivariate Statistical Methods in R for Ecology (Leibniz IGB-Berlin)

PhD, Geography

Berlin

Humboldt University in Berlin

Current - 2020

  • Thesis: Microbial metabolism of terrestrial resources in river corridors under variable flow regimes: match-mismatch scenarios between resources and consumers
  • Independently analysed large biogeochemical data using multivariate statistical methods in R
  • Campaigned for surface water sampling from alpine rivers

MSc, Environmental Sciences

Istanbul

Bogazici University

2018 - 2016

BSc, Chemistry

Istanbul

Bogazici University

2016 - 2012

  • Bachelor Project: Archaeometry: Looked for organic lipid residues in ancient pottery from 6000 BCE

Secondary School

Istanbul

Saint Joseph French High School

2011 - 2006

Relevant Teaching Experience

Software Carpentry Workshop

Delft

TU Delft

2025 - 2023

  • Assisted The Unix Shell and Introduction to Version Control with Git sessions

Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism

Delft

TU Delft

2025 - 2023

  • Contributed to the yearly-held workshop in organization, development and update of the materials and assisted during the lectures

CodeRefinery

Delft

TU Delft

2024 - 2023

  • Assisted the locally held version of the workshop

Data Analysis and Visualization with R for Social Scientists

Rotterdam

Erasmus University Rotterdam

2024

  • Assited the R related sessions of the workshop

Disclaimer

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The source code is available on github.com/Selkubi/cv.

Last updated on 2025-03-01.

Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

Response of hyporheic biofilms to carbon quality shifts. - In preparation

Journal of Hydrology

Publication

Current - 2025

Translating flow regimes into dissolved organic matter (DOM) regimes - lessons from rivers under flow management in two climate zones

International Society for Limnology

Presentation

2022

Anthropogenically altered flow affects compositional variance of dissolved organic matter.

ISRS

Poster

2019

Anthropogenically altered flow affects compositional variance of dissolved organic matter.

Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences

Poster

2019